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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by sjf on Saturday February 15, 2020 @08:14PM (#22339197)
You can get private insurance in Europe if you want.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by dx034 on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:39AM (#22346715)
At least in the UK, private hospitals tend to focus on basic care or routine surgeries. Once you have a more complicated or urgent case you'll end up in a publicly funded (NHS) hospital anyway. Which means that in the end, anyone independent of income has access to the best doctors, criticality of their illness decides who gets to see them, not money.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by ryanlol on Saturday February 15, 2020 @08:53PM (#22339347)
Yeah, I pay less than 1k/yr for fancy private health insurance in Europe.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by anticensor on Sunday February 16, 2020 @01:08AM (#22340077)
What do you mean by fancy?
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by ryanlol on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:30AM (#22341684)
Medevac, top tier hospitals around the world (except US, lol) in network.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by Twixes on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:30AM (#22347514)
Trauma Team too?
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by ryanlol on Monday February 17, 2020 @06:41PM (#22352046)
Covered, but availability unsurprisingly depends on if the care provider decides to activate it.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by Twixes on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:52AM (#22355610)
Hmm, I mean the Cyberpunk one. Your insurance must really be good.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by ryanlol on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:10AM (#22355733)
Haha, I wondered about that. Providers like Cigna and Bupa are the big ones in this space. Intl insurance is sooo much cheaper than US ones.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by ivanhoe on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:22PM (#22343273)
You can, but you need to think about it ahead. And no one expects the Spanish inquisition...
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